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Day in Photos: Aug. 28, 2012

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Two sidecar teams compete in the International Dirt Dart event in Scheessel, Germany.

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A helicopter with a water tank flies up to a burning hillside on the Valle Pozzo overlooking the village of Positano, Italy.

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An Indian roadside dentist's assistant files the dentures of a customer at a roadside clinic in Varanasi. Dentist Ramjee Sao said he provides a range of dental services from extractions, filling cavities and routine pain alleviation procedures to making and fitting a complete set of dentures.

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An anti-GOP protester wears a Guy Fawkes mask, symbol of the occupy movement, during a protest rally in downtown Tampa , Florida.

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An Israeli Soldier shoots rubber bullets towards Palestinian protesters, not pictured, during a demonstration supporting prisoners in Israeli jails outside the Ofer military prison, near the West Bank city of Ramallah.

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A woman enjoys the a heavy rain in the Tampa area of Florida.

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A Sri Lankan fisherman works on his skiff along the shoreline off the eastern town of Batticaloa. Sri Lanka recorded an impressive 8.3 percent growth rate last year, up from 8.0 percent in 2010, the first full year after troops defeated Tamil separatist rebels in May 2009 and declared an end to nearly 40 years of fighting.

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Jennifer Jones, a Grand Marshal for various bands and events, poses for a photo in the Treme section of New Orleans. The face of New Orleans is changing: Seven years after Hurricane Katrina the city many said would not recover is racially more diverse, and whiter, younger and richer; indicators not of failure but its success at reinventing itself. In fact, the city is experiencing a boom, and even gentrifying.

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German couple Hildegard and Heinz Schoenewolf stand in front of a knights castle in their garden in Dudweiler, southern Germany. The couple has built this 15m tall replica of a castle during 37 years in their own back yard.

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Horse riders compete during the annual "Great Steeplechase of Flanders" horse race, at the Gaverbeek Hippodrome, in Waregem, Germany.

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A riot police officer near to a tire on fire, lit by Muslim youths, outside Masjid Musa Mosque, in Majengo, Mombasa, Kenya. Police and protesters fought running battles as a violent backlash to the killing of a radical Islamic preacher continued Tuesday in Kenyaís second largest city city of Mombasa, which left several people hospitalized.

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Syrians stands in the rubble of a damaged building following an airstrike in Kfarnebel, Idlib province, northern Syria.

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People make their way in a flooded street from heavy rain in Peshawar, Pakistan. Pakistani officials say heavy monsoon rains that triggered flooding in the country have caused dozens of deaths.

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A Chinese fishing boat navigates through rough waves caused by Typhoon Bolaven in waters off Seogwipo on Jeju Island, South Korea.

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Police officers and people look on as government officials light a fire during a ceremony to dispose of confiscated drugs, in Phnom Penh.

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Paramilitary policemen jump up above their fellow policemen's arms as they take part in a psychological training in Tongling, China.

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A boy reacts as his sister splashes water from a stone spout near Bangalamukhi temple in Katmandu, Nepal. There are dozens of centuries-old stone spouts that are still used to collect household water or as public bathing spots in the city.

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Women sunbathe in front of the wreckage of capsized cruise liner Costa Concordia near the harbor of Giglio. Tourists on the Tuscan coast were taking part in a rather macabre form of sightseeing -- taking boat trips to view the wreckage of shipwrecked cruise liner Costa Concordia, where 32 people lost their lives after it hit rocks on January 13.

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A dog sits on a buffalo who is cooling off in the Ravi River in Lahore, Pakistan.